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* Fix memory leak in sierra_release() (this time with signed-off-by)
@ 2012-10-24 14:23 Lennart Sorensen
  2012-10-24 14:56 ` Johan Hovold
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Sorensen @ 2012-10-24 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Bjørn Mork, Len Sorensen, linux, linux-usb

I found a memory leak in sierra_release() (well sierra_probe() I guess)
that looses 8 bytes each time the driver releases a device.

Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
index 01d882c..76ef95b 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
@@ -959,6 +959,7 @@ static void sierra_release(struct usb_serial *serial)
 			continue;
 		kfree(portdata);
 	}
+	kfree(serial->private);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM

-- 
Len Sorensen

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* Re: Fix memory leak in sierra_release() (this time with signed-off-by)
  2012-10-24 14:23 Fix memory leak in sierra_release() (this time with signed-off-by) Lennart Sorensen
@ 2012-10-24 14:56 ` Johan Hovold
  2012-10-24 16:06   ` Lennart Sorensen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Johan Hovold @ 2012-10-24 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lennart Sorensen; +Cc: linux-kernel, Bjørn Mork, linux, linux-usb, Greg KH

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:23:09AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I found a memory leak in sierra_release() (well sierra_probe() I guess)
> that looses 8 bytes each time the driver releases a device.

Good catch! I missed this one when I fixed a bunch of other memory
leaks in the sierra with recent kernels:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135100550421848&w=2

I'll rebase my patch on top of this one as your patch should be
backported to all stable kernels, whereas mine is only required for
v3.6 and later.

> Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>

Thanks,
Johan


> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
> index 01d882c..76ef95b 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
> @@ -959,6 +959,7 @@ static void sierra_release(struct usb_serial *serial)
>  			continue;
>  		kfree(portdata);
>  	}
> +	kfree(serial->private);
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PM

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* Re: Fix memory leak in sierra_release() (this time with signed-off-by)
  2012-10-24 14:56 ` Johan Hovold
@ 2012-10-24 16:06   ` Lennart Sorensen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Sorensen @ 2012-10-24 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Johan Hovold; +Cc: linux-kernel, Bjørn Mork, linux, linux-usb, Greg KH

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:56:44PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Good catch! I missed this one when I fixed a bunch of other memory
> leaks in the sierra with recent kernels:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135100550421848&w=2
> 
> I'll rebase my patch on top of this one as your patch should be
> backported to all stable kernels, whereas mine is only required for
> v3.6 and later.

Oh that looks useful.  I was trying to track down if there were more
leaks in the driver.  I just fixed the one that was most obvious to me.

-- 
Len Sorensen

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